A contemporary Mexican-American artist based in New York, Claudia Doring Baez creates expressionistic paintings that blur the lines between past and present, abstraction and figuration, by reinterpreting imagery from art history, cinema, literature, and photography. Celebrated for her spontaneous, gestural approach, marked by a lively application of paint, she is often seen as working in a meta mode since she usually begins with existing artworks or media.
Employing oil paint, oil stick, and charcoal on canvas, her work explores themes of authorship, memory, and identity, translating source images, such as black-and-white photographs, into vibrant, textured paintings that are rich in color and convey a strong physical presence. Working in series, she engages in conversations with the artists and authors who inspire her, reimagining Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills, films by Alain Resnais and Pedro Almodóvar, and Marcel Proust’s works.
